This Bilingual book is designed to help young children learn to talk and to get ready to read. First children look and listen. Then they touch and point. Then they name and talk about the pictures they see on the page. Later, they will read words from the page. A wonderful book for adult - child interaction. Copyright 1984, Revised 2004.
Joseph Sparling
Joseph Sparling, Ph.D., an early childhood educator and former schoolteacher and principal, is currently an investigator on Partners for Literacy, a national intervention study of Even Start programs. Sparling is the first author of LearningGames, The Abecedarian Curriculum, Partners for Learning, and Conversation Books, educational resources that have been used widely in the USA and abroad. He is a Fellow of the Frank Porter Child Development Institute of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and is a Research Professor at Georgetown University. In addition to his work in the USA, Dr. Sparling has done curriculum development, training, and intervention in orphanages in Romania.
